My intuition
tells me to keep 12 as the number of glyphs in period 16 of E.
The condition of the Keiti tablet is, in general, very
good. Fischer:
"... a beautiful piece, showing only a small amount of surface pitting (wormholes), especially at the upper right-hand side of the recto. The bottom left-hand corner was lightly chipped. The tablet was fluted." As the tablet was fluted its glyphs will not easily be erased. The wormholes may have been there already when the text was carved into the wood. I believe so. Furthermore, our experience with a non-existent glyph at the center (pito) in H should be taken into consideration:
The 16th glyph is not there. In the 16th period of K glyphs are destroyed (or were never there in the first place). In the 16th sequence of E a wormhole may have been used for a non-existent glyph. A 'worm-hole glyph' beyond Ea8-4 would have ordinal number 261 (counted from the beginning of side a). 261 = 9 * 29 and once again 29 pops up - 29 is the ordinal number of viri in Ka2-5. I think this is evidence for not counting the 'worm-hole glyph' - glyphs must be 'in the light' to be counted. 12 will therefore remain my estimated number for the glyphs in sequence 16 of E. Counting beyond the assumed worm-hole, to the end of the 208 glyphs, we will reach 54 as their number. 54 = 3 * 18 is satisfactory and 314 will then be equal to 260 + 54. |
